Report of the Interim Executive Director, Children, Young People and Families
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The Interim Executive Director, Children, Young People and Families, submitted reports and commented upon 12 cases where parents had appealed against the administrative decisions made by the Interim Executive Director with regard to the refusal to grant home to school travel bus passes. |
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The Committee gave consideration to all the supporting information and evidence provided by the pupils’ parents including, in some cases, evidence and advice provided by voluntary or professional bodies and organisations and, arising therefrom, it was:- |
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RESOLVED: That (a) eight appeals be not upheld on the grounds that there are no exceptional circumstances demonstrated and, having regard to the Council’s Home to School Transport Policy, (i) the distances from the home addresses of two of the pupils to the schools for which they are requesting passes for is less than the distance in the criteria (Case Nos. NETH1 and NETH2) and (ii) the schools that six of the pupils are requesting passes for are not their catchment school/nearest suitable school (Case Nos. ARB1, SHGR1, SHGR2, KIED1, SPAC1 and SPAC2); and |
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(b) consideration of the remaining four appeals be deferred to enable the Interim Executive Director, Children, Young People and Families to make further investigations into the cases, along the lines now requested, and authority be given to the Interim Executive Director, in consultation with the Chair of the Committee, to determine the appeals (Case Nos. SHAR1, SHAR2, SHAR3 and ECFI1). |